Gemini Live
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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.
Google's conversational Gemini voice mode — successor surface for Assistant on Android.
Best for open-ended voice conversations on Android phones, eventually replacing Google Assistant on Pixel devices. Pricing: Free tier · Gemini Advanced $19.99/mo.
What it is
Gemini Live is the conversational voice surface on top of the Gemini multimodal model. Streaming audio in, streaming speech + text out. It is in the process of subsuming Assistant on Android phones.
Watch out for: Cloud-only; not designed for offline transcription; mobile-first.
Install / use
gemini.google.com — install the Gemini app on Android / iOS
What people actually do with Gemini Live-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | Yes |
| Languages supported | 45 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Gemini Live vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Gemini Live | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | 45 | 99 |
| Platforms | Android, iOS, Web | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Gemini Live
Frequently asked about Gemini Live
Is Gemini Live free?
Partly. Gemini Live has a free tier with paid plans above it — published pricing: Free tier · Gemini Advanced $19.99/mo. Free-tier limits change more often than this page does; verify on the vendor's pricing page.
Does Gemini Live work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Gemini Live runs on Android, iOS and Web.
How do I get started with Gemini Live?
There is nothing to install — Gemini Live is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does Gemini Live support?
Gemini Live lists 45 languages.
What are the limitations of Gemini Live?
Cloud-only; not designed for offline transcription; mobile-first.
Who is Gemini Live best for?
Open-ended voice conversations on Android phones, eventually replacing Google Assistant on Pixel devices.
Is Gemini Live open source?
No. Gemini Live is a proprietary product from Google. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Who makes Gemini Live?
Gemini Live is made by Google.
What kind of tool is Gemini Live?
In this directory Gemini Live is filed under voice assistant, llm as a product.
What are the alternatives to Gemini Live?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/google-gemini-live-alternatives comparing Gemini Live with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Gemini Live-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from Gemini Live?
Gemini Live is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Gemini Live?
$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the Gemini Live category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
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